Farm Calendar 0 (Continued from Pace AID) toberll Bradford-Sullivan Farmer’s Assn, meets at Wysox. 13th Annual Adams County Farmers’ Assn, meeting at the JJendersville Fire Hall, 7 p.m. 33rd Annual Conference, PA Assn, of Conservation Districts and State Conservation Com mission; continues through October 8; Pocono Manor Inn, Pocono Manor. Thursday, October 9 PA 4-H Horse Show con tinues through 12th Farm . Show' Complex, Harrisburg. Family Focus for the 80’s sponsored by PA Ex- tension Service; 8:30, Hershey Convention Center, Hershey. 55th PA State Guernsey State Sale; Guernsey Sales Pavilion, Lan caster; 12:30 p.m. Friday, October 10 Adams County Farm-City Farmers market and tour; Gettysburg; 9:30 am. to‘4p.m. Montgomery Pomona Grange legislative din- > ner; 6:45 p.m.; Wismer Hall, Ursinis College, Collegeville. Saturday, October II National Trotting Pony Sale at the Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg Uhionville Community Fair, Unionville; Continues through October 11. Food is still bargain WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last year, according to a Department of Agriculture study, the average Pa Veterinary Medical Assn. 98th annual meeting Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Champion. Continues through Oc tober 14. National Apple Queen Contest; South Mountain Fairground, Arendtsville. Berks County Sheep and Wool Growers tour, starts at 8 a.m. Old time steam tractor display; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Rough and Tumble, Kinzer. American wage earner worked only 4 minutes to earn enough to buy a 1-pound loaf of white bread that cost 52 cents; only 13 minutes to buy a pound of sliced bacon that costs 81.85. Only 15-% minutes to earn enough to buy a pound of sirloin steak that cost $2.17; only 13-% minutes to buy a pound, of pork chops that retailed at $1.90. He or she had to work 4 minutes to buy a pound of broiler chicken; about 4-% minutes for a pound of tomatoes that retailed for 64 cents; only 16 minutes to buy a dozen oranges that sold for $2.25. Just 11 minutes to earn enough for a pound of butter Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 4,1980—A13 that sold for $1.56; only 5-% minutes to earn enough to purchase a dozen large eggs for 77 cents. That adds up to only 87 minutes for the whole order. Around the world only Canadian workers averaged better. They bad to work only 83-% minutes for that same food-purchasing power. On the other hand, the Japanese worker had to spend 7 hours and 15 minutes on the job to earn enough for those same groceries. More than 2 hours and 54 minutes just to earn enough for the sirloin; 88 minutes just to buy the dozen oranges.’ Workers in the United Kingdom had to stay on the job 3 hours and 18 minutes to earn the full order; French workers, 2 hours 46-% minutes. Those in Denmark, 2 hours and 28 minutes. Italian workers, 2 hours and 19-% minutes; Belgian workers, 2 hours 4-% ROPE IN SOME EXTRA CASH! Advertise With A Lancaster Farming CLASSIFIED AD... Phone: 717-394-3047 or 717-626-1164 U.S. minutes. Swedes and West Germans, 2 hours; Australians, 1 hour and 57 minutes. Dutch workers, 1 hour and 53 minutes. A breakdown of prices of the items shows sirloin, which cost $2.17 in the U.S. was |3.73 a pound in France, $5.68 in West Germany, $15.66 in Japan. Pork chops, just $1.90 here, cost $2.55 in France, $2.58 in West Ger many, $2.67 in Sweden, $4.70 in Japan. Eggs, which cost only 77 cents a dozen in the U.S., were $1.46 a dozen in France, $1.12 in the United Kingdom, $1.09 in Japan, $1.73 in Sweden, 83 cents in Canada. On the other hand, oranges, which cost $2.25 per dozen in the U.S., were only . $1.92 in France, $2.11 in West Germany, $1.67 in the United Kingdom, $1.65 in Australia, and $1.68 in Belgium. But, they were $2.29 in Denmark, $7.92 per dozen in Japan.
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